ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,193, issued on April 14, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).

"Methods and systems for virtual assistance using a device" was invented by Dwayne Kurfirst (Woonsocket, R.I.), Neema Athia (Woonsocket, R.I.) and Dhiren R. Solanki (Woonsocket, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a heads up display (HUD) device for a vehicle, a cloud provisioned computing system, and one or more service provider devices is provided. The HUD device is configured to obtain biometric feedback data of a user; input the biometric feedback data to a remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) model to determine biometric condition dat...